Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method of operation and the edible products of the Central Kitchen have been a perennial subject of undergraduate protest. Now that board rates are scheduled to rise again next year, a brief look at the assumptions underlying Dining Hall economics is definitely in order...
...calculus for meeting food costs is the College regulation that undergraduates in residence must sign up for twenty-one meals a week, to be paid for at a flat rate. This method of assessing board charges accords with neither the realities of meal attendance or any canons of elemental fairness...
...costly and less efficient. Yet this contention remains to be legitimized, since no alternative system has yet been tried, at least in the memory of current undergraduate gastronomists. Certainly recognition should be given to the Central Kitchen's need for some uniformity in board payments, but whether the existing method is the most efficient or most just is clearly open to question...
...voiced by President Eisenhower. But the flamboyant flight of American troops to the scene will surely be recorded as one of the most monstrous blunders of our ill-fated Latin American diplomacy. The President, whose capacity for indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into a presidential campaign trip. He had established his valor...
Helped by a superb set of costumes and stage furnishings (including their own axes and logs, since "English ones might not have the right ring"), 15 well-disciplined M.A.T. pros, descendants of the group that "Method" Director Konstantin Stanislavsky helped to found 60 years ago, gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope...